The transcription of legal documents in this section, most very ancient, was realized from photocopies of micro-films from the Québec National Archives in Montréal.

Web-site of the Québec National Archives

http://www.anq.gouv.qc.ca/

The author of this site chose to respect the spelling of the documents that he had, to reveal, for one, the different ways that the current Besner surname was spelled.